Named Data Networking (NDN) Project Newsletter for May/June 2016

The NDN project team compiles and publishes this newsletter monthly to inform the community about recent activities, technical news, meetings, publications, presentations, code releases, and upcoming events. You can find these newsletters posted on the Named Data Networking Project blog.

Community Outreach

On May 31-June 1, 2016, NIST hosted a two-day workshop on Named Data Networking on their campus in Gaithersburg, MD. Day 1 theme focused on the Internet of Things, Day 2 theme covered Big Data and Big Media. See the agenda and the webcast.

Technical News

NDN Client Library for Java v0.12 – These libraries now include support for setting a Link object and selected delegation in the Interest. In also includes support for NDNLPv2.

NDN-VIZ: An Interactive Visualization Tool for NDN Traffic

We released an early version of NDN-VIZ, an interactive visualization tool for NDN traffic, aiming to help NDN researchers and developers to easily analyze their tests. NDN-VIZ uses D3 to build visualization based on log files (ndndump & topology). The current version contains only two visualization channels, topology and name tree. We plan to add a timeline and allow selection of specific time periods.

We posted revision 1 of the technical report NDN-0039-1 “PartialSync: Efficient Synchronization of a Partial Namespace in NDN.” Data synchronization plays an important role in NDN similar to transport protocols in IP. Some distributed applications, such as news and weather services, require a synchronization protocol where each consumer can subscribe to a different subset of a producer’s data streams. In this paper, we propose PartialSync which aims to efficiently address this synchronization problem.

NDN Seminars

The NDN seminars are internally focused. If you would like to participate in the NDN Seminars, please contact the PoC, UCLA PhD. candidate Spyridon Mastorakis <Spiros.mastorakis@gmail.com> for the most up-to-date information regarding upcoming seminars.

2 June 2016 Klaus Schneider (University of Arizona), “Practical Congestion Control for NDN”